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October was a scary month for IT administrators in charge of filtering spam, according to a pair of reports from messaging security firms. Unknown phishers are using a widely recognised name, AOL, to disguise a false eBay sign-in site, according to the security research team at Fortinet. Business tycoon, the late Kerry Packer, is the subject of an unsolicited email that is attempting to dupe vulnerable Australian’s into transferring personal funds to overseas scammers. Based on his recent tour of Australian capital cities Peter Cullen, Microsoft’s chief privacy strategist, discusses the importance of privacy protection in Australia SCAMwatch is warning Australians of a phony email claiming to be from RAC Finance Limited, part of the Western Australian Royal Automobile Club (RAC). Fraudsters are targeting online car buyers with fake car sale advertisements on online classifieds and auction sites warns SCAMwatch the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) scam alert service. "It's the economy, stupid." It worked for spammers now, and it will work for spammers in the future. Six days removed from Microsoft's emergency fix for the dangerous ANI handling vulnerability, spammers are turning to an old friend to get their scams to the masses. Online blackmailing grew in frequency during the first quarter of 2006, according to a study by one security vendor. Recent automated teller machine (ATM) fraud cases involving Citibank and other banks points to a new wave of "personal identification number (PIN) block" schemes, Gartner has warned. Microsoft's has discovered some interesting new trends in cybercrime. The firm's Research Unit, which has just released its six-monthly Security Intelligence Report, found that the number of attacks designed to steal personal information had risen, as had cases of theft through social engineering. There has been a sharp hike in the volume of cyber-crime attacks designed to steal personal information, new research reveals. Marshal has released an email security appliance aimed at system administrators. Virus levels down in Australia but spam surging again according to MessageLabs. How do cybercriminals recruit money mules to move their ill-gotten gains from one country to another? One way is through real-looking websites appearing to promote Apple resellers. Research suggests that spammers didn't find the results they were looking for during recent PDF spam spikes, according to anti-virus vendor Sophos. Phishing scams have overtaken the number of emails containing viruses and Trojan horse programs for the first time, new research shows. Online bank fraud losses rose sharply in the first half of 2006 due to a surge in phishing scams, new figures show. Many businesses are failing to secure WiFi networks, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and USB storage devices, new figures show. Monster.com is beefing up security measures in light of the recent data theft that exposed the personal information of at least 1.3 million users to hackers.